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1. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
Mylenium Feb 17, 2011 12:56 AM (in response to evan.fotis)Could be that this limitation of previous PS versions was forgotten to be updated... don't think there is any solution to your problem from withing PS and you will have to find anotehr GIF creation tool that can read image sequences or MOVs....
Mylenium
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2. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
evan.fotis Feb 17, 2011 1:33 AM (in response to Mylenium)thanks!
also tried mpeg streamclip, does not have Gif option.
Which was the last version AE offered gif animation exports?
This takes me years back when using that application for this kind of stuff, was it debabilizer?
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3. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
Marian Driscoll Feb 17, 2011 5:59 AM (in response to evan.fotis)evan.fotis wrote:
...Btw the 500 frames animation created an 85kb gif...What are the pixel dimensions? Such a small file size for 500 frames seems very very odd.
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4. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
evan.fotis Feb 17, 2011 7:31 AM (in response to Marian Driscoll)I know.. it does play perfectly btw.. This is just a line drawing, no colours etc.
The thing is I cannot recreate it either lol..
Tried again to export same QT but only the last part from within shotophop so I could perhaps stitch them together somehow, and 375 frames gave a 3.11 MB gif...
Dimensions are XGA (1024x768) and the output medium will be a ... ppt, which has to be self contained (so no big avi or wmv allowed) and small to travel through email.
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5. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
evan.fotis Feb 17, 2011 8:48 AM (in response to evan.fotis)I rerendered from within AE this time at 15fps so the whole thing would fit. Its a bit jerkier and not as smooth as before but message gets through.
Saving for web in PS Gif options, I reduced colours to selective 8 with No Dither.
When I have transparency checked filesize estimate is 2.2MB.
When I Uncheck transparency, filesize goes up... to 10.6 MB.
Naturally I chose the first even though I do not need transparency.
just a note: through mpeg streamclip I get a 577 kb mp4 file. Now how to get it into ppt.
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6. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
Chris Cox Feb 17, 2011 11:59 AM (in response to evan.fotis)OK, we found the 500 frame limit in the Photoshop code.
Basically, SaveForWeb doesn't handle a large number of animation frames well, and needs additional work to handle large animations in GIF.
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7. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
Marian Driscoll Feb 17, 2011 1:59 PM (in response to Chris Cox)Are you actually considering raising the frame limit to allow/encourage reckless abuse of the GIF format?
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8. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
Chris Cox Feb 17, 2011 2:50 PM (in response to Marian Driscoll)Come on, there are valid uses for animated GIF in this world: http://www.gifbin.com/random (er, maybe I should rethink that)
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9. Re: gif animation frame number limit?
Noel Carboni Feb 17, 2011 2:56 PM (in response to Chris Cox)Seems valid enough to me, insofar as Adobe has a prominent ad across the top. That would *technically* make your post sort of spam-like, Chris.
Seriously, thanks for that link - it made me smile.
But they were all pretty short.
-Noel





